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January 14, 2006 at 6:18 PM

So I'm crazy excited about spring semester. Here's what I'm taking:

1. Violin lessons (1.5 hours per week)
2. Orchestra rep lessons (.5 hours per week)
3. Viola lessons (.5 hours per week)
4. Instrumental conducting
5. History of Western Music (prehistory-Baroque)
6. Symphonic Literature
7. Symphony Orchestra
8. Quartet

And the awesomest thing is that I don't have class until noon on any given day of the week.

Quartet is also going to be amazing, I hope. We're all really dedicated, serious performers, so it has lots of potential. We want to play the Borodin No. 2 to start with (probably the most beautiful quartet I've ever heard.

I'm also crazy excited about orchestra because the first concert is the Rimsky-Korsakov "Scheherazade" and the Ravel "Scheherazade" (I didn't even know Ravel wrote one!)

Hah, seems like it's going to be a "Mighty 5" semester!

From Natasha Marsalli
Posted on January 14, 2006 at 6:39 PM

Borodine...*drools*...played some of that good stuff at camp. I loved it so much I begged my teacher to let me keep the score...he let me since I was a poor musician, haha...

From Samantha Hiller
Posted on January 14, 2006 at 11:41 PM

we played the Rimsky-Korsakov last year in my youth symphony...it was absolutely amazing...your schedule sounds awesome!!! you're so lucky!

From Ben Clapton
Posted on January 15, 2006 at 3:11 AM

no classes before noon all week? man you get it lucky. I don't know my timetable yet, but i'm sure i will have classes before noon, as I have had for the first two years of my course (including one day in my first year which was 8am-7pm). which is good because i like working in the morning and having afternoons free :)

From Pauline Lerner
Posted on January 15, 2006 at 4:00 AM

That's a great collection of courses, and having no classes before noon sounds great, too.

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